LSParseCurrency (yes, you don't have currency but it would work here too) gets rid of pound signs, euro, $, commas, etc and turns the number into a decimal to four places.
..IIRC.... HTH barry.b On 4/7/06, Adam Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kay, > > I like a regular expression for this sort of thing.. but it's just > personal preference as I am often turning $10,000 into 10000. I will > also turn $10,000.00 into 10000.00 > > reReplace(string,"[^0-9.]","","all") > > This will remove anything that isn't a number or a "." (leaving decimal > points in place) > > Cheers, > Adam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 7 April 2006 11:35 AM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] what's the 'proper way' to remove comma formatting > from numbers > > > Hey guys, > > I can think of all sorts of ways to actually do it, but what's the > most correct/bulletproof way to turn 10,000 into 10000? > > -- > Kay Smoljak > http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
